Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The LGBT History Month UK blog is a space for friends of History Month to find news, information, notice of events, tips, press releases, articles and possibly discussions about the LGBT community in the UK and its history.

TerminologyA weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelt web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". The person behind a blog is called a blogger. All several millions of blogs published to date constitute the blogosphere.

Alongside the regularly updated entries, a blog often features a blogroll, a list of links to other blogs that the author reads; and/or, with whom he or she is affiliated.

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